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NASB | 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word [as an official messenger]; be ready when the time is right and even when it is not [keep your sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, whether convenient or inconvenient, whether welcome or unwelcome]; correct [those who err in doctrine or behavior], warn [those who sin], exhort and encourage [those who are growing toward spiritual maturity], with inexhaustible patience and [faithful] teaching. |
Subject: Contemporizing Christians Message? |
Bible Note: Dear Doc, You can find it in Part 1 of Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology. You should know these things... or your Bible school is anything but a school of the Bible. You may hate the phrase "make it relevant to today" all you want to Doc, and you may say "As if the very Words of the Holy Lord God Himself, the Creator of everything, could say ANYTHING that wasn't imminently, essentially, and thoroughly pertinent. ACK!", all you want to Doc. But your statement does not resolve questions like, "are we to say that the wearing of hats is merely an historical event not to be made relevant to today's Christian although to Paul it was a moral issue and just take the essence of the teaching, or are we to say that it is a pertinient to today just in the way it was then and to be made normative to today's Christian"? Paul said, if there are any contentions about this there is no other practice do the churches of God, but everyone disagreed as to how to apply this passage didn't they? And that was because you could not just take it as it was written and use the way Paul and the churches did then according to almost everyone in here. Now isn't that true? Do you see the problem with not making first century noramtives "relevant to today"? Let me say this one time, don't insult my Bible school or insinuate that it is anything but a good one, that is beneath you Doc. What I know is that not everything is the same now as it was in the first century and you should know that better than I do. I have read Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology Doc, it is not the only good tome on systematic theolgoy around you know... You know very well I think that attempting to take out dated first century settings and author's intents to first century Christians and trying to make them applicable to today is not so easy a task as you have made it out to be! Contemporizing the message does not necessarily mean that one will be amending anything, changing anything, or twisting anything. But it can mean that where ever an author was talking about things that seem to only apply to the first century or the OT we can find an application for today - there is no such thing as a scripture for which we cannot find a valid application for today. Example - I and II Chronicles - these are genealgogies right? Most would stretch their brains trying to make it relevant to today at all based on the context there. But it is relevant once you see it in light of the whole counsel of scripture and see that you don't have to be concerned with the various details that could only apply to then and not to now, the broader meaning could be the genealogy of Jesus through out the OT. We wouldn't take these texts and start going around numbering and listing our own genealogies in suit with the author's intent to do so to his audience would we? That would be silly! But is it still relevant to today, becuase it is part of the genealogy of Jesus or another OT saint and so on. Part of exposition must at the end encompass a hermeneutic to be applied, all scripture is profitable to the man of God to be applied. It is not about finding creative ways to apply it, or transform it, it may be necessary to find a way to present material that comes from an NT or OT setting in order to make just understandable as an application for today - that is part and parcel of good exegesis isn't it? We do not amend the message of Scripture by finding creative ways to present, transform, and translate... we exposit. We expose the truth of Scripture. We stand upon it. We do not ever attempt to augment it, polish it, spruce it up. Any such efforts only detract from it. HHHHHMMMMMM God's Day To You, Tamara |